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The following article is re-printed with the kind permission of the author from his webstite Harris-Authors.com. In response to our e-mail requesting permission to post the article and explaining what Fortress Ameritrash was about, Mr. Harris had this to say: I have a great liking for the games you mention. Fury of Dracula is one of my all time favourites and I will never forget the game of Dune where my army was wiped out when my wife destroyed the Shield Wall. ...

Last year’s game of the year was pretty much universally elected to be Starcraft by everyone who mattered (sorry Hanno!), so it wasn’t surprising that the Brood War expansion was quickly announced after release. Though Rumors say it came close to being cancelled after the controversial Larry Levy posthumously removed the design award he granted it 6 months ago, Brood War still chugged along with it’s release date of “End of 2008”.   Since it’s the end of 2008, there seems to be no better time to put on the seductive fishnets, bribe entry into the FFG grounds and try...

  Flaster Siskin, designer (left) & Cliff Cramp, artist (right)  On November 13 Flaster Siskin left this rather enigmatic comment on my review of Pirate King. I am sorry to inform you, but the product available at Tuesday Morning is a discontinued, unauthorized and unlicensed version of the game. I must recommend that you do not buy it from there. The New & Authentic version is currently available at Thought Hammer As Sag says: Whoa -- that is a pretty BIG chunk of information you just dropped. Would you care to elaborate a bit? Since, Flaster didn't reply,...

Joe Dever will probably be best known to you all as the author of the immensley popular Lone Wolf series of gamebooks but he has a long and distinguished history of involvement in the UK gaming scene with both hobby and computer games. He's still heavily involved - currently expanding the Lone Wolf series for republishing and a Lone Wolf computer game - and a very busy man so we were lucky he could spare the time to do a Q & A session for us. A few years ago he set an astonishing precedent by granting permission for project...

Derek Carver is a name probably best known to many of you as the original designer of Warrior Knights, republished a little while ago by FFG. He's also the brains behind a number of other classic Games Workshop titles such as Dr. Who and Blood Royale. However, he's been working in the game industry for longer than most of you have probably been gaming, and has been involved in an number of different game designs and with a number of different companies over the years. He kindly agreed to spare F:AT the time to share some of the wisdom and...

For this weeks wargame article we've got a treat for you - am interview session with Bowen Simmons, designer of two of the most innovative wargames of recent years: Bonaparte at Marengo and Napoleon's Triumph. He's currently in the process of applying his system to the American Civil War for his next game, Guns of Gettysburg but he agreed to take some time away from the design desk to answer some questions for us.

These are the Answers to your questions. Kevin Nesbitt from Valley games responded to the questions users posted here on F:AT last week.